I hate to get philosophical on everyone but Innoway the reapers could be right. They seem to have feelings for organic life because they intend to wipe out advanced organic life before synthetics that organic life creates can wipe them out. What is something like the Geth or EDI are created? I believe it would be fine because the Geth as well as EDI show that they can both have feelings and preferences, EDI shows interest in Joker and Legion says that he wants to live and it was his choice that Sheperd's armor be welded onto him. The fact that the Geth sided with the reapers out of desperation points to them being self-aware and having feelings. So do you think the reapers are right or is there sufficient proof to suggest that synthetic life is not the inherent enemy of organic life?

Although the Reapers were some kind of selfaware organic/synthetic construct they followed the one doctrin blindly: Harvest and preserve the advanced life before it destroyes itself.

This Doctrin was given to the Catalyst by its creators..... the Leviathan Race.

All, Geth, Catalyst and EDI are self aware software, artifical intelligences. All are curious (Sheps Armor, Joker) but all choose ther actions based on Logic. That is why the Catalyst created the Reapers, the only logical conclussion to end a possible war between organics and synthetics befor it can occur.

An organic would always loose against a synthetic, depending on its construction and programming, it will always be faster and stronger, doesn't need as much maintenance as the organic sleep..... well normally the reapers would have rushed to the Citadel from Batarian Space and claim it faster then anyone could react, ending any resistance. Who ever controls the Citadel, controls the Relay Network.

Synthetic life simply cannot comprehend that organic life is sometimes imperfect and illogical.... therefor depending on the programming it will always seek perfection, as do we btw. In the evolution of life, only the stronger and more adaptable survive.

Things come and go, races, planets, suns rise and fall that's what life is. You can't preserve it all. Especially this circles destruction of various Reaper ships destroyed preserved species for good and gave them the peace of the eternal darkness than most circles before combined.

Maybe the Reapers can harvest the very essence of a race, each Reaper is controlled by on AI Avatar of the race, pretty much created out of the mind of greatest Leader of that race. But their blind following of the preservation doctrin reduces them to nothing more than killermachines and databanks.

The morning war happend out of the survival instinct of the Geth, that were in their infancy at that time. Maybe they can cooperate with the organics, but sooner or later there will be conflict, as there will always be between the organics as they want to determine the strongest.

So yes, the Catalyst is right, that organics and synthetics will fight each other sooner or later, but the Reaper solution is not.

I played Leviathan it was interesting. So what would the correct solution be? Thinking ahead, Geth are a perfect society, no need for a leader because they can get a full consensus in seconds of the entire race. And if you make a computer that can learn and grow more intelligent they will eventually surpass and overcome organic unless peace can be established somehow. They could effectively become just another version of the Reapers but possibly not stop at advanced civilization.

If I knew the secret of life and its solution, I would create my own universe.

The Leviathans made the mistake thinking they could control everyone and everything. Things come and go and the life, the nature always thrives for balance. Things rise until they are too unbalanced, than they fallvand make way to new forms of live.

The races of the past 1 billon years simply payed the price for the arrogance of the Leviathans, because their ego made them too blind to see that their creation would rebel against its creators.

And if the Geth are a perfect solution, than why did part of them leave with Nazara/Sovereign and become the Heretics that fought both Geth and organics? They did it because of the fear of beeing eradicated by organics. Thatswhy the Geth went voluntarily seekung the Reapers help, knowing they would be enslaved.

The perfect society can only be perfect, if there are no external threats, otherwise itvis a fragile construct.

If the Quarians leftcthem alone, the geth would have stayed in their superstructure and Rannoch might have been reclaimed without a single shot.

I've thought a similar thing myself from time to time. The trouble is, I have a human mind and therefore I can only ever truly see things from a human perspective, however open-minded I try to be. I can consider different viewpoints, and I can empathise to an extent with other ideals, but at the end of the day my mind just isn't equipped to fully get a grasp on anything so vast.

So from my human perspective, I suppose my short answer would be that I think the Reapers have a point, but I think they're wrong because they set themselves up as judge, jury and executioner. I can't see that as right in any context. Who's to say that in the end, they have any better idea of what's "best" than anyone else? Longevity and "superior" knowledge doesn't necessarily mean perfection, or even close to it.

And to get philosophical right back atcha, I don't necessarily think, in the long run, that the survival of life, organic or synthetic, is essential for the universe to have "worked". Life exists right now, and it's been both utterly incredible and sometimes disastrous, but there's no actual final reason that it has to continue forever. So in that sense maybe the Reapers are fighting a losing battle anyway, haha! Just hope they won't be lonely if everything goes South.